It has been reported that a partial settlement may have been reached with Superfish, in a U.S. class action against both defendants. The settlement reportedly includes Superfish’s cooperation with the plaintiffs by disclosing over 2.8 million additional files and providing Superfish witnesses for a potential trial. The Canadian proposed class action is very much in its infancy. It remains to be seen how the class action will evolve in Canada.

Since well before Information Technology PolicyPro was first published and for good reasons considering the technologies available at the time, it made sense to restrict devices connected to the corporate network to those owned and controlled by the enterprise and configured by IT. This is no longer the case.